Whole 30 - November Challenge (Closed Group)

Thank you Jenny! I'm so glad to be here! :bigsmile:

I was in the store yesterday and its so shocking how much most of the food in there is made of wheat or processed food
also a eye opener how much less calories you can eat but just staying away from that now i know why cavemen and women were skinny

It's crazy! Almost everything has high fructose corn syrup too!

It really is shocking how much stuff is in processed food. I work part time doing food demos and of course part of that is sales but I do point out stuff to people who are receptive to hearing it on some of the products I am passing off as food.
I wish the whole country was more educated on these things. It is amazing that so many people opt for microwavable over cooking. I know that we live in a "busy" all the time society but what we are giving up to eat that way is way more than time involved. Even before I started cleaning up my diet I avoided microwavable food like the plague. I wanted to know what I was eating.

Well today is the start of a new week and I hope that everyone has a great day full of sunshine and good food and friends and laughter.
Mary

good morning all. I had a good weekend and I hope everyone else did too.

Just posted some info. that perhaps you all would want to read up in response to a "neuroscientist / neuropharmacutiacal" gal on another thread that keeps posting wrong info. I replied to her and listed correct info. about paleo benefits that maybe you all would find helpful. I am sure you all here have come across the info. I posted in reply about the benefits of having a Low Carb WOL.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/382572-low-carb-kids?page=3#posts-5300769

The OP is about an article suggesstion that Paleo is safe for kids. The OPoster has a great weight loss testimony too from his low carb food journey. Interested thread, all in all.

Happy Monday everyone.

As evidenced by many on this website alone....................most people just don't care. They want quick, convenient and what they think tastes good. If most of these people would just half way clean up their eating plans they would notice their taste buds change over the course of a couple of weeks.

I stalk people's grocery carts at the store when I go to Wal-mart, Target, or any other grocery store and the amount of boxed and frozen, packaged stuff I see in people's carts is just unbelievable. Not any fresh fruits or vegetables. Ramen noodles, hamburger helper, frozen pizzas and other frozen dinners, etc..........cases of soda, blech!!

Processed food has always been nasty to both me and my husband as we were both raised on home cooked food. Yes, some of that home cooked food was starchy and carby, but I never had a weight problem until my hormones decided to go all whacko on me. Heck, I was 125 pounds when I met my husband 17 years ago and he immediately knew something was wrong with me because it seemed like I was gaining weight overnight by leaps and bounds even though my eating habits never changed and I was exercising. He was furious when the Dr basically called me a liar and told me to find a new Dr, which I did to the tune of the same song and dance.

I take the time to clean, prep and cook, even if that means throwing a beef or pork roast or a whole chicken in the crock pot with some vegetables and seasonings and cooking over night while we are asleep. We eat good food. We are getting ready to finish up our licensing for the Foster to Adopt program and I want to make sure that our kids will be eating healthy foods when they come into our house.

I find people stalk my grocery cart! Last night the cashier filled 5 paper bags with just my produce alone and he said, "that's a lot of produce." The lady behind me laughed and said she was thinking the same thing. He asked if I was really going to eat all of that? No, I just buy all that for show. Silly. I told him I feed a family of 5, we most certainly will eat all of that and I will probably will need to be back for more by the weekend (maybe not 5 bags worth though).

I can hardly stand anything out of a box, can or fast food wrapper anymore. I swear I can taste soybean oil now. Nasty. I don't consider those things treats or something to look forward to and haven't for a long time. Those are foods of last resort. It was hard to "have" to cook all the time at first, now it's just second nature.

I can't believe just how completely twisted the notion of "food" has become. All people see these days seems to be calories and macro nutrients covered by a layer of sugar or artificial sweeteners and emulsifying agents.

"You can eat it and suffer immediate consequences" =/= "will nourish your body and keep you strong and healthy."

Growing up my parents put a lot of emphasis on real food, we sat down for family meals, etc. We still had our share of packaged food, but bread and Cheerios was about it for processed food that we ate regularly.

In college I think I moved away from a lot of that, due to a number of different factors (like not having a kitchen/not really knowing how to cook), but over the years I have definitely come back to whole foods--even to a greater extent than my parents. I am surprised just how little of my food comes with a label. Besides spices, it is basically: coconut oil, coconut milk (and I might start making my own), mustard, and salsa (both of which I could make, I just choose not to at the moment).

so one of the gals from a previous month's low carb challenge just posted that she's out. I'm sad that she is giving up.

Just a reminder folks, that you can't burn fat, body fat, without going first into starvation mode. If your body can't use the energy it has in stored fat while in starvation mode that means one of three things:

your body can't burn body fat because you have too many carbs in your diet and your body is burning sugar not fat during energy burning mode

or

you are eating too much and you are in storage mode, not energy burning mode

or

you are diabetic to the point that you can't get your body to turn energy from fats into useable energy and you go into diabetic ketoacidosis which is pretty rare and dire. (You will get loopy, black out, vomit allot, end up in a coma). Just won't happen right away but the symptoms are there if you do try to be a fatburner for more than the one day of the dangerous symptoms.


So folk, please be true to your self and understand that if you want a low carb diet in order to lose body fat to work you have to go under 100g of carbs a day. You also have to use up the glycogen in your muscles and liver completely via exercise.

If you are doing a leptin reset, you need medical supervision. The leptin reset requires a very low carb intake, and ketone monitoring to make sure the body does not become acidic. We do not need to do leptin resets. I have been trying to do this myself, but I am unable to last more than a week below 50g of carbs a day. I will discuss this further with my gastroenterologist after some blood work. I am curious on his take on it. I obviously don't need to do a leptin reset since I am sucessful at burning off body fat.

It really is shocking how much stuff is in processed food. I work part time doing food demos and of course part of that is sales but I do point out stuff to people who are receptive to hearing it on some of the products I am passing off as food.
I wish the whole country was more educated on these things. It is amazing that so many people opt for microwavable over cooking. I know that we live in a "busy" all the time society but what we are giving up to eat that way is way more than time involved. Even before I started cleaning up my diet I avoided microwavable food like the plague. I wanted to know what I was eating.

Well today is the start of a new week and I hope that everyone has a great day full of sunshine and good food and friends and laughter.
Mary

As evidenced by many on this website alone....................most people just don't care. They want quick, convenient and what they think tastes good. If most of these people would just half way clean up their eating plans they would notice their taste buds change over the course of a couple of weeks.

I stalk people's grocery carts at the store when I go to Wal-mart, Target, or any other grocery store and the amount of boxed and frozen, packaged stuff I see in people's carts is just unbelievable. Not any fresh fruits or vegetables. Ramen noodles, hamburger helper, frozen pizzas and other frozen dinners, etc..........cases of soda, blech!!

Processed food has always been nasty to both me and my husband as we were both raised on home cooked food. Yes, some of that home cooked food was starchy and carby, but I never had a weight problem until my hormones decided to go all whacko on me. Heck, I was 125 pounds when I met my husband 17 years ago and he immediately knew something was wrong with me because it seemed like I was gaining weight overnight by leaps and bounds even though my eating habits never changed and I was exercising. He was furious when the Dr basically called me a liar and told me to find a new Dr, which I did to the tune of the same song and dance.

I take the time to clean, prep and cook, even if that means throwing a beef or pork roast or a whole chicken in the crock pot with some vegetables and seasonings and cooking over night while we are asleep. We eat good food. We are getting ready to finish up our licensing for the Foster to Adopt program and I want to make sure that our kids will be eating healthy foods when they come into our house.

I am a shopping cart stalker too and I really really want to say stuff to people who have children and all they are feeding them is sugar sugar sugar and potato chips. I know I can't and I don't but I want to ask what are you thinking?
Also one really sad thing I see are really really large people who can barely walk riding the scooters around the store and stopping at every demo, usually more than once. A lot of these people are young! I hope that they realize what they are doing to themselves one day and reverse it.

ooooh I love this:

It will never be:

easy
perfect
the right time

Nobody is going to:

tell you exactly what to do
drag you out of bed in the morning
yell at you to eat healthy
lift weights for you
run a race for you

There will always be:

holidays
sick days
sleepless nights
early mornings
vacations
bad weather
long days at the office

It will always be easier to:

say no
hit SNOOZE
do nothing
settle
blame others
make excuses
give up
say "I tried my best" when you really didn't

Life is freaking tough - health, wealth, and happiness certainly don't come easy.

For those reasons, you don't need:

The best equipment
The best business plan
The PERFECT workout program (it doesn't exist)
A super specific meal plan

And it's okay to:

not have all of the answers yet - NOBODY does
not have your life completely figured out yet - NOBODY does
get started and figure things out as you go

As Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Do the best you can, with what you have, where you are."

Take action. Make changes.

You will make mistakes. You will fail. Embrace it.

You know what's NOT okay?

to expect instant success and gratification
to give up immediately when life doesn't go your way
to keep doing the same thing while expecting different results
to coast through life while complaining about it
to constantly wonder "what if" without ever finding out

Tomorrow never comes.

Eventually never happens.

Today.

Now.

Shut up and start.

-Steve

Hooray! I love Nerd Fitness!

Okay, I am declaring a new challenge for me for this month: a maximum of 3 meals/eating periods per day.

I have successfully eliminated my need for a mid-morning snack by eating eggs for breakfast instead of oatmeal. But, I am still in the habit of wanting a snack around 3 or 4 and I would like to get rid of this.

Okay, I am declaring a new challenge for me for this month: a maximum of 3 meals/eating periods per day.

I have successfully eliminated my need for a mid-morning snack by eating eggs for breakfast instead of oatmeal. But, I am still in the habit of wanting a snack around 3 or 4 and I would like to get rid of this.

I find that when I am short on sleep I need that afternoon snack. Unfortunately, I've been needing it for a while :grumble: I was able to sleep in later in the summer and there was a time when I was able to go without.

pushing off lunch by an hour will probably help then.

I feel like skipping breakfast today. Just not hungry. But I am off work today and by the time I do get hungry I will be where I make rational decisions on what to eat. When I work I try to make sure I have a good breakfast because lunch time changes and I don't want to be Starving (lol) and let that help me eat just whatever is available at that second.

Okay, I am declaring a new challenge for me for this month: a maximum of 3 meals/eating periods per day.

I have successfully eliminated my need for a mid-morning snack by eating eggs for breakfast instead of oatmeal. But, I am still in the habit of wanting a snack around 3 or 4 and I would like to get rid of this.

I find that when I am short on sleep I need that afternoon snack. Unfortunately, I've been needing it for a while :grumble: I was able to sleep in later in the summer and there was a time when I was able to go without.

that is true for me as well.. when I don't sleep well I find myself snacking more and craving sugary stuff.. it is harder to get that needed extra hour when the time changes.Many nights I toss turn and don't sleep well. unfortunattely my children have internal alarms clocks.. they wake up at the same time no matter what time they go to bed..in the fall that means an hour earlier:sad:

I have a question about chocolate. I have seen it mentioned a few times. Is it allowed? What kind?